Beverages, fruit and vegetable juice, manufacturing · Connecticut

Natural Country Farms

Name: Natural Country Farms Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Ellington, CT · ~95 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 9.3
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Natural Country Farms runs at 282% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Beverages, fruit and vegetable juice, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Natural Country Farms: 9.3 TCR = 282% of Beverages, fruit and vegetable juice, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Natural Country Farms safety composite

Natural Country Farms scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 10%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 9.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers
DART rate: F 6.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers
Fatalities: D 0

Safer than 51% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

TCR Δ

−5.0

2021→2022

Natural Country Farms injury rate improved

Natural Country Farms's TCR fell 5.0 from 11.8 in 2021 to 6.8 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2021 at 11.8 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.73× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=11.8 · 2022=6.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311421 · Ellington, CT ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.3 · 282% of ind

DART 6.8 DART
RANK P10
PHOTO Orange
BOOK 2y book
INJ 23 inj
SIZE ~95 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Orange (0.0 TCR gap)

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9.3
Orange

9.3
Long Lake Culi

9.3
Knouse Foods P

9.3
Bell-Carter Fo

9.2

What this shows Natural Country Farms averages 9.3 TCR (282% of the Beverages, fruit and vegetable juice, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Natural Country Farms TCR series: 2021=11.8 · 2022=6.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Natural Country Farms falls in its industry

330 Beverages, fruit and vegetable establishments

Safer than 10% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Natural Country Farms (95 employees, TCR 9.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 131 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Natural Country Farms has fewer employees than the Beverages, fruit and vegetable juice, ma median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.1. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year	TCR	DART	Injuries	Illnesses	Fatalities
2022	6.8	6.8	9	0	0
2021	11.8	9.3	14	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311421 · CT · Ellington

330 Beverages, fruit and vegetable juice, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,008 rated employers in Connecticut with headcount on file · 23 employers in Ellington, CT · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Orange	ORANGE, CA	9.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Long Lake Culinary Campus	TRAVERSE CITY, MI	9.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Knouse Foods Pap Paw	PAW PAW, MI	9.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Bell-Carter Foods LLC	CORNING, CA	9.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Barrett Inc.	DANBURY	95 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Horst Engineering	EAST HARTFORD	95 FTE
STATE-SIZE	HARTRANSIT	DANBURY	95 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Leggett & Platt Aeorspace - Middletown	MIDDLETOWN	95 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Big Y Foods, Inc. Ellington	Ellington	145 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Town of Ellington	Ellington	116 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Earthlight Main	Ellington	104 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Country Pure Foods - Ellington, Connecticut	Ellington	101 FTE
NAT-TCR	Doradus Corp DBA Alvarez Roofing	Thonotosassa, FL	9.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	6957-CRP	Corpus Christi, TX	9.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Tri-State Electric Memebrship Corporation	Blue Ridge, GA	9.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	CL Construction, LLC.	Wahoo, NE	9.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE	25 - Grand Junction	Grand Junction, CO	95 FTE
NAT-SIZE	34 - Yuma	Yuma, AZ	95 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Artisan Display, Inc.	Red Hill, PA	95 FTE
NAT-SIZE	496 - Johnson Creek	Johnson Creek, WI	95 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2022, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.